IMPD: Crime numbers hit five-year low
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department leaders on Thursday said the broader Indianapolis community shares the credit for a rapid drop in major crime categories.
New numbers from IMPD show 105 total homicides between Jan. 1 and Sept. 1 of this year, 84 of which were murders. Both of those numbers are the lowest year-to-date totals reported by IMPD in the past five years. For comparison, there were 111 murders and 138 total homicides by this time last year, and 172 murders and 182 total homicides in the first eight months of 2021. Homicides include accidental shootings, self-defense shootings, and other killings, as well as murders. IMPD Chief Chris Bailey said hard, consistent work across the city drove those numbers down.
“A lot of the work that IMPD has done in partnership with our community, the Office of Public Health and Safety, the mayor’s gun violence reduction strategy, our own changes to the way we approach violent crime in the city of Indianapolis, that all is playing a part in these reductions that we’ve seen,” Bailey said…